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The Origins of the Babylon of the West

by | Jul 13, 2018 | True West Blog

In 1829, New Mexico Antonio Armijo, a merchant-explorer, leading a trading expedition, blazed the “Old Spanish Trail” through what would become Las Vegas, Nevada. With sixty mounted men and a caravan with their caretas loaded with trade good’s he was on his way to California to barter for mules. They left Abiquiu, New Mexico on November 7th, 1829 and reached the Mission San Gabriel on January 31st, 1830. The caravan returned from their historic journada on the Old Spanish Trail on April 25


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